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In our house, we have a cordless landline phone. Trouble is, certain members of the household are of a bohemian and unregulated disposition, and invariably fail to return the phone to its appointed place after use.
Result: at the next incoming call, the base station chirps away merrily, but the handset
is nowhere to be seen, lost, perhaps, beneath a pillow, or under a pile of newspapers. A frantic search results, but the caller has normally disconnected before the handset is located.
Now I have recently acquired a fancy new mobile, for which apps are available by the barrowload, and I normally have this about my person. How nice it would be if, on hearing the phone ring, I could whip out the mobile, and pick up. I'm sure that some android or iphone wiz out there could knock something up pretty sharpish.
Blue Fusion
http://www.youtube....watch?v=gjCWKd721dk
Car stereo with BT interface to mobile phone. [Jinbish, Dec 20 2010]
Cordless Phones with Bluetooth Links
http://www.smithgea...tooth-landline.html
These cordless phones connect to other devices by bluetooth - but I'm not sure whether that is to only channel audio or whether it includes call-control functionality. [Jinbish, Dec 20 2010]
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"Google Voice is not available in your country" (UK). And, yes, my existing cordless setup does ring from the handset, but it is a feeble sound, drowned out by the muscular and sonorous blare from the base station. |
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Good idea - there's no reason your cordless phone basestation can't talk to your fancy new mobile phone over bluetooth or 802.11g or something. |
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This kind of thing is eminently doable. I think Orange did do something very similar - not sure about the name though. I'll have a bit of a dig and see what I can find. |
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@hippo: any reason the mobile can't talk good 'ole DECT to the base station? |
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<mobile>I no-speaka-de-"Decked"</mobile> |
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Seriously though, if the basestation does the translation then the mobile device doesn't need extra gubbins (like a DECT RF end). |
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@MtF - not sure - nice to see you back here by the
way (unless you've been here all along and I just
haven't seen you for a while) |
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